Comic Strip Live, New York, NY: Shows, Open Mic and Booking
1568 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10028 (between 81st and 82nd Streets)
The short answer
Comic Strip Live is a comedy club in New York, New York, at 1568 Second Avenue. Shows run nightly; tickets $20–$27.45, 17 and over, two-item minimum. For comics, it runs an open mic (gladys' open mics at 6:00 PM on Wednesdays and Fridays (the club's open-mic page says Thursdays)) and publishes how to get booked.
On stage soon
No dated show here on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar yet — the club's own calendar has what is on: its listings ↗
Lineups belong to the club and the comedians, and can change; the listing has the last word. More shows in New York on the Comedy Calendar →
For comics
Per the club's own site, read 29 September 2026.
Hearing back
- New Talent Show performers get an evaluation from the club's talent booker source ↗
Open mic and new talent
- Sign up for Gladys' open mic by contacting Gladys, by phone or at gladyscomedy@yahoo.com source ↗
- The open-mic page names Gladys' mic as a Thursday mic source ↗
- The club's Show Times block lists Gladys' open mics on Wednesdays and Fridays at 6:00 PM, and a DF open mic and workshop on Tuesdays at 6:00 PM (it disagrees with the Thursday heading above) source ↗
- The New Talent Show and an open mic alternate every other Saturday at 5:00 PM, with an audience source ↗
House rules
- The page lists a $20 cover plus a two-item minimum for New Talent and a $14 cover with one drink ticket for the Saturday open mic; it does not say whether these apply to performers, the audience or both source ↗
From the club's own pages, read 29 September 2026 — hover a rule for its exact words, or open its source. Where two of its pages disagree, both are here.
More stage time: Stage Time has open mics by night, and the Gig Board has calls for comics posted by the rooms themselves.
For fans
As the club's own pages give them, read 30 September 2026 — tap or hover a source for its exact words. Not published there: the phone rule and parking.
Plan the night
The night planner builds an evening around Comic Strip Live: where to eat before, the trip there and home, and what the night costs.
Open, according to its own website on 29 September 2026. Listed then: Tom Van Horn, Rolonda Watts, Craig Gass, Connor O’Brien and Chuck Nice, Friday 2 October 2026, 8:00 PM.
Near Comic Strip Live
- Rodney's Comedy Club — New York
- West Side Comedy Club — New York · open mic · booking info
- New York Comedy Club – Upper West Side — New York · booking info
- The Grisly Pear – Midtown — New York
- Broadway Comedy Club — New York · open mic · booking info
- Stand Up NY — New York · open mic · booking info
Comedy clubs in New York → · The Club Directory, coast to coast →
The Club Directory is also in the back of the D.O.C. book, Stand-Up Comedy: From Writing to Touring — $29, over 1,000 pages.
Updated 2 October 2026 · the club's facts from its own site, read 29 September 2026; its rules for comics read 29 September 2026; fans' facts read 30 September 2026